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2023: A Year in Earthjustice
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Kiliii Yüyan for Earthjustice
Brian Plonka for Earthjustice
Carmel Zucker for Earthjustice
Thanks to your support,
this year, our 200 lawyers — alongside policy experts, scientists, and analysts — represented 570 public-interest clients across the country in their fight for justice.
Together, we fight for the right to a healthy environment for all.
In this year of extraordinary challenges, you brought extraordinary hope and strength to the Earth and its people.
You gave wolverines a fighting chance to survive in our warming world.
An icon of the wilderness, wolverines can fight off grizzlies — but not a changing climate.
After six successful court challenges and decades of delay by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, wolverines will finally be protected under the Endangered Species Act. Only 300 of these elusive, fearless creatures remain in the lower-48.
Photo: Steven Gnam
From Pennsylvania to Kentucky to Oregon, you relentlessly advanced clean energy equity and affordability with landmark wins.
Photo: Dennis Schroeder / NREL
You defended our irreplaceable Arctic, one of our last truly wild landscapes.
There’s no place on Earth like the Arctic. If these lands are destroyed, the whole world will feel the loss.
You stopped the Peregrine oil exploratory project and repeatedly challenged the Willow project — the largest proposed oil and gas undertaking on U.S. public lands — protecting public lands and waters that are held in trust for all generations.
Photo: Kiliii Yüyan for Earthjustice
You made our air safer to breathe by shutting down industrial operation loopholes, toxic diesel pollution, and more.
Photo: Wong Yu Liang / Shutterstock
Clean Water & Sustainable Agriculture
You safeguarded our nation’s waterways, ending a free pass to pollute by industrial agriculture.
Rivers and streams across the United States have long been polluted by nitrogen and phosphorus, discharged from slaughterhouses and animal rendering facilities. Thanks to you, that’s about to change.
Photo: Getty Images
You kept open the doors to justice, breaking down illegal barriers to public participation.
Texans’ voices are routinely and arbitrarily silenced by a state environmental agency — but that is now changing, thanks to you.
After their concerns were unlawfully excluded, community members challenged an air permit for the massive expansion of an oil export terminal — and they won.
Photo: Getty Images
You ensured Hawaiʻi’s Mākua Valley will be protected forever from live-fire training.
On the island of Oʻahu, Mākua is home to endangered plants and animals — some found nowhere else in the world — and heiau (Hawaiian temples), ahu (altars), and burials.
Seized by the military in the 1940s, Mākua endured decades of live-fire explosions that damaged sacred sites and native forest habitat.
After 25 years of legal and community advocacy, Mākua’s era of mortars and artillery has ended at last.
Photo: Mālama Mākua
You did all this good,
and so much more.
Earthjustice is a nonprofit in the business of building a better future. We’re here because the earth needs a good lawyer.
We represent all our clients free of charge, thanks to the generous support of individuals and foundations who believe as we do: The law has power to make change.
Financial Report for Fiscal Year 2023
“Justice can’t wait for the economic conditions to be right. Thanks to our donors’ dedication to our cause, Earthjustice met the financial challenges of the last year with confidence and clarity.”
– Stuart Clarke, Chair of Earthjustice’s Board of Trustees
FY23 Revenue
Breakdown of
FY23 Contributions + Bequests
FY23 Expenditures
